I have recently returned from DAC09.  While I am still processing a lot of the information that was pumped into my head, I did want to furnish a link to one of the high points of the conference:  The Literary Arts Extravaganza.  Organized by Jessica Pressman and Mark Marino, the extravaganza consisted of a live [...]

I stumbled across an announcement from the Beehive Collective <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive_Design_Collective> and was admiring, as I always do, their great pen and ink posters, their aesthetics, their rich informational qualities, and their ethical commitment.  On the one hand, I find myself admiring their tried and true methods: black and white posters, created by artists working in [...]

I have been thinking a bit about the question of “poetics” and what it means:  Does it refer to poetry specifically?  Does it refer theories of literature?  Or can it be loosened to denote theory, in general?  These distinctions have been in play for some time time, as definitions of poetry, literature and theory have [...]

Though Percy Bysshe Shelley is hardly the first to complain about the relentless progress of capitalism, and though his language is occasionally loathsome to contemporary critics, myself included, who prefer the proprietary language which has been invented in the last decade or so, it is hard not to see the relentless process of taking the [...]

To begin, I would like to offer here an alternate definition of “posthumanism” and how we have arrived at it.  The conventional take on posthumanism goes as follows:  Through science and/or theory, humanism has come to an end.
What exactly this means is not clear.  To look to Nietzsche’s ubermensch (sometimes translated as “superman”), the posthuman [...]

Milton’s Devil as a moral being is as far superior to his God, as one who perseveres in some purpose which he has conceived to be excellent in spite of adversity and torture, is to one who in the cold security of undoubted triumph inflicts the most horrible revenge upon his enemy, not from any [...]